You may know this already, but I thought I’d mention that there’s a free scan of an 1886 embroidery stamping catalog available online. John Governale was kind enough to scan all 255 pages in and release them to the public domain, so no copyright issues! There are tons of nice designs: lots of flowers, old timey people, pretty birds, cherubs, borders, geometric designs, phrases, just an amazing variety of different things. But it was the demented bird patterns that really caught my eye, so that’s what y’all get to see in this post. I think they’re hilarious. Someone sure had a lot of fun drawing those.